CHAPEL DOWN GROUP PLC (CDGP) — Half Year Results for the period ending 30 June 2025

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the CHAPEL DOWN GROUP PLC Half Year Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can view your questions submitted today and publish responses, but it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CEO, James Pennefeather. Good afternoon to you. Thanks very much, Alex, and a big welcome to all our shareholders. And thank you for taking the time to join our H1 presentation. I'm James Pennyfeather. I'm joined by our not so new Chief Financial Officer, Lauren Mouton, and we're going to take you through this afternoon's presentation. Please do submit any questions into the relevant box, and we'll hopefully get around to answering them at the end. But we're gonna start with a highlights video from the last six months. Great. I'm delighted to report strong performance in the first six months of 2025. Lowen will be talking through the detail of this performance in his upcoming slides, but I wanted to call out some key highlights. Total net sales grew by 1211% and wine sales grew by 14% in the half against the backdrop in which the English sparkling wine category also grew by 10% in the off trade. The company has now had strong positive performance momentum with three consecutive quarters of growth to the end of June. Gross margin increased by 7% to 3,700,000, slightly behind volume growth due to the impact of ...